Koerner said she is ready to run this season despite a reoccurring stress fracture in her lower tibia that has restricted her training this summer.

I had a decent track season this year, and I’ll definitely be ready to go this season, she said. DeNoon considers the MVC the strongest conference in the country due to depth .

Illinois State has good recruits and good returnees, Indiana State is returning eight strong kids who are all juniors and seniors, and Drake lost two seniors, but they’ve done an outstanding job recruiting by picking the top two recruits in Iowa, he said.

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DeNoon has no fear of his freshmen making the transition to the college level, but he does admit that every freshman is different.

They are all different, but by the time they’re sophomores, they have made a giant step from before, he said.

He also said the heat and humidity was a problem for the entire team during practice.

We tried running in the morning and in the afternoon, but we found out that running at four o’clock was murder, so we moved it to seven in the evening, DeNoon said.

French said she liked the way the team is running this fall already.

We all look real close together, and as long as we all come in together, that’s all that matters.